HILDE LAMBRECHTS
I was born in Belgium (1961) and received a PhD in Biology from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (1993). I settled in Canada in 2002 and enrolled in ‘Figure Drawing and Painting’ with Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre (2007 – 2009) and ‘Ceramic Sculpture’ with Jim Thomson (2009 – 2011) at the Ottawa School of Art.
Since 2012 I work as a full-time artist in my home studio. Ceramic installations are my main focus, but since 2020 I also make smaller commercial work that I sell on etsy. I became a finalist of the RBC/CAO emerging artist award in the same year. From 2016 -2019 I became an active member of the Ottawa Guild of Potters, as its secretary (till 2018) and designer of 2 major outdoor art installations: ‘Populace’ (2017), in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday at The Canadian Museum of Nature, and ‘Compass’ (2018) at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa.
My work has been shown in both solo- and (juried) group exhibits, including the New York Art Expo and the Canadian Gallery of Clay and Glass in Waterloo, Ontario. My work is in private collections in Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada, as well as in the collection of Global Affairs Canada. “The Bark Archive” is on permanent display at the Canadian Embassy in Brussels.
In 2010 I founded Figureworks, an Ottawa based not-for-profit organization for art of the human form in all media. I served as Figureworks President for 7 years and have curated all of its annual award shows till 2019.
- 1993PhD in biology
- 2009Enrolls in 'Ceramic Sculpture' with Jim Thompson
- 2010Founds Figureworks
- 2012Finalist of RBC/CAO Emerging Artist Award
- 2017Designs 'Populace'
- 2018Designs 'Compass'
Curriculum vitae
2020 International Orton Cone Box Show Purchase Award, January 11
2018 NCC grant of $5,610 on behalf of the Ottawa Guild of Potters for ‘Compass’
2017 Ontario 150 grant of $10,000 on behalf of the Ottawa Guild of Potters for ‘Populace’
2016 ACHIP grant of $12,000 on behalf of the Ottawa Guild of Potters for ‘Populace’
2012 RBC – Ottawa Arts Council Emerging Artist of the year Finalist Award, April 25
2021 ‘Blue Fin Tuna’ – Dust Evans Gallery, Shenkman Centre, Ottawa, February 12 – April 11
2018 ‘Stranded’ – Ottawa River Bank near Massey Lane, Ottawa, September 10
2015 ‘Exquisite Woods – The Aftermath’ – Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, January 18 – March 15, 2015 (invited and curated)
2013 ‘Hocus Pocus’ – Rothwell Gallery, Ottawa, October 25 – December 24
2013 ‘Petrified Forest’ – Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Shenkman Centre, October 25 – November 24
2020 The International Cone Box Show, Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, Inc – Lawrence (KS), January 18 – February 27 (Juried)
2020 The Auction Collective, Online Auction by Tom Best, London, UK (curated)
2020 Environmental Crisis – Art and Science Exhibition, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (UK), February 13 – March 26 (juried and curated)
2018 ‘Compass’– Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Ottawa, June 7 – September 30
2018 Celebrations of Clay – Galerie Côté Créations, Ottawa, March 1 – 31, April 1-30, Sept 1 – 30, Oct 1 – 30
2018 ‘Articulations’ – Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, November 23, 2017 – January 20, 2018 (invited and curated)
2017 Annual Ottawa Guild of Potters Juried Exhibition’ – Galerie Côté Créations, Ottawa, November 2 – November 30
2017 ‘Populace at home’ – Dust Evans Gallery, Ottawa, October 21 – December 13
2017 Celebrations of Clay – ‘Much ado about nothing’ – Gallerie Côté Créations, Ottawa, September 1 – 30
2017 ‘Populace’ – Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, June 17- September 9
2016 Ottawa Guild of Potters Juried Spring Exhibition, Ottawa, May 22 – 24
2014 ‘Form’ – The Studio Cafe, Ottawa, October 5 – 19, 2014
2014 ‘Fusion’ – Studio Vogue Gallery, Toronto – May 8 – 24, 2014
2014 ‘New Function/Non-Function: Design as Exploration’ – Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, March 30 – June 15 (invited and curated)
2013 IX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Fortezza da Basco, Florence (Italy), November 30 – December 8
2013 Dimensions, a National Capital Network of Sculptors exhibition – Saint-Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, September 12 – 15
2013 The Ottawa Guild of Potters 40th anniversary exhibition – City of Ottawa Archives Gallery 112, Ottawa, July 31 – Oct 4
2013 Art expo 2013, New York, March 21 – 24
2013 ‘The best of the NCNS exhibition’ – City of Ottawa Archives Gallery 112, Ottawa, Jan 9 – Feb 23
2012 Juried exhibition ‘Nature into Sculpture’ – Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa – May 1 – 13
2011 Annual juried exhibition – Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, 168 Pitt Street, Cornwall, Feb 1 – March 11
2011 Juried exhibition ‘Nature into Sculpture’ – Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa , Feb 5 – 13
– This Art is Garbage, Canadian Georgraphic, July-August 2020, p 42-47
– Green Perspectives, Francesca Wilson, 2020, https://www.alaluz.org/home/coming-together-ii
– Peacemeal, Ottawa magazine, Volume 21, Number 3, 2018, p71
– RCGS launches 2018 Summer Exhibits Series at 50 Sussex, Kiley Bell, Canadian Geographic online, June 28, 2018
– O Canada! A celebration of 150 years, Joan Weinman and Kimothy Walker, 2017, page 133.
– Honoring History – Ceramic Review, Sept/Oct 2017
– The making of Populace: A Bold Ceramic Art Installation for Canada’s 150th -Celebrations, Kim Lulashnyk- Fusion Magazine, September 2017 Vol.41 No.2
– Snapshot in Time: Ottawans Asked to Help Fill City Time Capsule with 2017 Mementos, Erin McCracken, Nepean Barrhaven News, Metroland Media, August 30, 2017
– Le Tre Anime (in Fiore) Del Canada, Georgia Tasso, IO Donna, Milan, August 5, 2017
– Canada 150 pottery Exhibit Celebrates Canada’s Cultures During Confederation, Lauren Malyk – Ottawa Citizen, June 19, 2017
– Populace 2017 Pour Canada 150”, Barbara Laurenstein (Reporter) – Le tele journal CBC. French television report and interview, 16 juin, 2017
– 82-hundred ceramic flowers are waiting to be installed at the Museum of Nature – Radio series episode- All in a Day with Alan Neal, Ottawa, ON: CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM, April 28, 2017
– Making a Community Celebration Installation – The Potters Cast with Paul Blais – episode 287, January 26, 2017
– Exquisite Woods, Judy Donaldson, Fusion Magazine Vol.30 no.2 Spring 2015
– Exquisite Woods exhibition examines ecological concerns, Robert Reid, Cambridge -Times and Kitchener-Waterloo Record, January 26 2015
– The making of The Aftermath, website article for Council of The Arts in Ottawa, March 2015
– The making of Ponderosa Downfall, Tom Jansen, Tomdesign.ca, http://youtu.be/RzmqZqDC0xM, January 2015
– Hilde Lambrechts at the Canadian Clay and Glass -Gallery, http://youtu.be/_X8cLcIQkuE, January 2015
– Fifth Annual Figureworks Award Show, PassionArts.com, December 4, 2014
– Personal Myth through earthen artworks’ by Lital Khaikin, Guerilla Magazine, Vol.10, Issue number 38, 2013
– Guerilla Magazine, November 26, 2012: http://www.getguerilla.ca/index.php/gallery-menu-item/437-figureworks-show- celebrates
2019 Works in progress, talk for The Ottawa Guild of Potters, March 2019
2017 ‘Populace’ workshops and demonstrations at various locations in Ontario, January-May
2016 ‘Populace’ workshops and demonstrations at various locations in Ontario, September-December
2016 The lowest form of Art – talk for Art East, Ottawa, March 22, 2016
2015 2014 – The making of ‘The Aftermath’ – talk for the Ottawa Guild of Potters, February 17, 2014
2014 Let’s talk about Figureworks – The Studio Cafe, Ottawa, October 8, 2014
2014 Emerging in art – Spring into Art conference, Carp, April 12
2014 A touch of clay – Hill Potter’s Guild, Richmond Hill, Toronto, March 4, 2014
2011 Art as a life saver – Ottawa Art Association, Ottawa, January 11, 2011
2019 Panel member for “Creating Spaces for Arts in Ottawa”, AOE, Ottawa, September 28
2018 Designer ‘Compass”, National Canadian Geographical Society, Ottawa
2018 Juror ‘Selections’, Art Ottawa East, Ottawa
2016 – 2018 Secretary of the Ottawa Guild of Potters
2016 – 2017 Designer ‘Populace’, Ottawa Guild of Potters, Ottawa
2016 Juror ‘Selections’, Art Ottawa East, Ottawa
2016 Juror OGP notebook, Ottawa, October 17, 2016
2010 – present Curator of Figureworks, Ottawa
2010 – 2016 President and Treasurer of Figureworks
2010 – 2012 Webmaster of www.Figureworks.org, 2010 till 2012
2010 Founder of Figureworks, April
2020 Carfac
2020 Craft Ontario
2016, 2019 – present Fusion, the Ontario Clay and Glass Association
2018 – present NCECA
2012 – present Potter’s Council
2012 – 2019 Ottawa Guild of Potters
2020 Online NCECA Workshops: Ashlynn Pope (October 22), Katie Bosley (November 15)
2020 Online Talking Clay Field Trips: Michelle Ettrick (October 5), Elisa Helland Hansen (November 20)
2019 Handbuilding with soft slabs, with Liz Zlot-Summerfield, Kingston, September 6-8
2019 Nerikomi with Eiko Maeda, Ottawa, March 4
2018 ‘A Potter’s Nod’ with Clément Hoeck, Ottawa, May
2018 Nceca, Pittsburgh, March 13-18
2017 Fusion workshop with Chandra Debuse, Ottawa, Oct 21-22
2016 Fusion conference, Toronto, June 3-5
2016 Handbuilding with Lesley McInally, Ottawa, January 22-24
2015 Surface Decoration with Maureen Marcotte, Ottawa, September 12-13
2012 Raku with Colette Beardall, Ottawa, June 2012
2009 – 2011 Mentorship with Jim Thomson at the Ottawa School of Art and at Lolaland
2006 – 2009 Lifedrawing/painting with Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre at the Ottawa School of Art
1993 PhD in Biology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1988 MS (cum laude) in Biology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1984 Bsc (cum laude) in Biology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1982 Laboratory technologist, Laboratoriumschool, Deventer
Public: Global Affairs Canada
Private: Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Canada